{
  "draft": "draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-13",
  "doc_id": "RFC4379",
  "title": "Detecting Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data Plane Failures",
  "authors": [
    "K. Kompella",
    "G. Swallow"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "50",
  "pub_status": "PROPOSED STANDARD",
  "status": "PROPOSED STANDARD",
  "source": "Multiprotocol Label Switching",
  "abstract": "This document describes a simple and efficient mechanism that can be used to detect data plane failures in Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switched Paths (LSPs).  There are two parts to this document: information carried in an MPLS \"echo request\" and \"echo reply\" for the purposes of fault detection and isolation, and mechanisms for reliably sending the echo reply. [STANDARDS-TRACK]",
  "pub_date": "February 2006",
  "keywords": [
    "data plane"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [
    "RFC8029"
  ],
  "updates": [
    "RFC1122"
  ],
  "updated_by": [
    "RFC5462",
    "RFC6424",
    "RFC6425",
    "RFC6426",
    "RFC6829",
    "RFC7506",
    "RFC7537",
    "RFC7743"
  ],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC4379",
  "errata_url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc4379"
}